The College View’s music and entertainment supplement.
Quentin Tarantino’s latest offering is an epic, three-hour long “Spaghetti Southern” that manages to invoke laughter, horror and sadness in the viewer. Set in 1858, Django Unchained documents the violence, brutality and racial supremacy that Read more…
Recording a double-album is, by anyone’s standards, an audacious move. Opposites is the colossal new 20-track LP by Biffy Clyro and it’s a statement that articulates Simon Neil and co.’s belief that they now have Read more…
How is the most wanted man on Earth caught? On a hunch, according to Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s latest effort, chronicling the manhunt to find Osama Bin Laden after 9/11. The story is told Read more…
Flux wasn’t around in January to keep you up to speed on the fun stuff going on in Dublin and lurking around the internet, but never fear, here’s a quick catch up. Dublin has a Read more…
Destiny’s Child will always be remembered for their feisty, female-empowering chart-topping hits such as “Independent Women (Pt. 2)”, “Bills, Bills, Bills”, “Bootylicious” and “Survivor”. The trio are back from an eight-year hiatus fully armed with Read more…
Chasing The Saturdays is mainly geared towards the American market as the girls’ attempt to make it big across the pond. The album includes one new single and four previous hits. The tracks selected for Read more…
Girls “I may be deflowered but I am not devalued.” (Shoshanna Shapiro, 2012) It is wise words such as this that cement Girls as a true example of how to do television right. It is Read more…
Essentially, The Impossible is a story about family and the unconditional and collective love between family members. The love story is nestled in a script that tells the true story of the Belons, a Spanish Read more…
1) Kim Kierkegaardashian (@KimKierkegaard) Kim Kardashian is a reality TV star and socialite, famous for…nothing, but most recently for carrying the fruit of Kanye West’s loins. Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, most famous for Read more…
When Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and others in their wavelength of talent are caught lip-syncing instead of singing live, it’s hardly a surprise. In fact, sometimes it’s a relief. Not many people I know are Read more…
Amour Georges ( Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuele Riva), a married couple in their eighties, face the greatest test of their lifelong love when Anne begins to display symptoms of dementia. After a few solemn credits, Read more…
The Black Eyed Peas are not a band I have much time for; never have, and it’s unlikely that I ever will. Fergie is someone I wouldn’t be particularly star-struck by, apl.de.ap barely counts as Read more…
What were you doing when you were 14 or 15? Probably sulking or shouting at your parents and slamming doors, determined to shake off the last vestiges of childhood. The members of Little Green Cars, Read more…
Have you seen that Family Guy clip where Peter watches Breaking Bad, and afterwards leaps at every opportunity to discuss how good it is? Did you inwardly groan and think, “I hope that’s not me” Read more…
Guilty pleasures no longer need to be secret. Many of us are now extremely comfortable with admitting we enjoy the odd cringey movie here, cheesy pop song there. It’s nice to meet other people who Read more…
With awards for the ‘Raunchiest Radio Voice’ and the ‘Ledgebag of the Year’, it was always going to be a night to rival no other. Entertainment.ie’s The Erics Awards 2012 saw crowds pack the Village Read more…
Take all the chick lit novels you’ve ever read. Now add in a Christmas in New York setting and some mystery and you have the recipe for Melissa Hill’s latest offering, The Charm Bracelet. Holly Read more…
Lauded by critics, championed by music bloggers, and mates with The Arctic Monkeys (Delo taught the Sheffield foursome Gaelic when they supported them in 2007) – Delorentos have it made. The release of Little Sparks Read more…
Street art, what’s the fascination? Maser is one of Dublin’s most respected graffiti artists, who has been painting on both the Dublin and international scene for over ten years. His work always carries a message, Read more…
12.12.12. Today. The date that Mayans believed the curtains would close, the credits would roll and we would all head on our way to wherever it is we go when we’re done here. But instead Read more…
Luke Reilly and Eimear Shannon run down the things that have provided them with joy‒ maximum joy. @Pontifex Do you feel that sometimes you pray to God and he just doesn’t answer? How would you Read more…
David Ayer, screenwriter of 2001’s Training Day, has a history of making cop movies. You might be forgiven for cringing internally at the prospect of yet another film about rogue cops cleaning up the mean Read more…
Adam Higgins, Deputy News Editor [ @Adam_Higgins27] Best album: Jack White’s first solo effort Blunderbuss. Song of the year: It’s a tough one but I’m gonna go with Kodaline’s “All I Want”. Best film: Looper. Read more…
I must admit that I actively try to dislike anyone who has come through the X Factor (with Jedward being my case and point). However no matter how hard I try I can’t help but Read more…
1. Old ladies. Between the staff and the patrons, a healthy proportion of charity shop folk are (generally) cute old ladies. For the most part, they will be so delighted to see someone young that Read more…